Grade 5 Science Topics Voicethread Project

Students will create a teaching tool using Voicethread to discuss and review the "top 5" most important things they need to know about the topics listed below.

What's a Voicethread anyway?

Steps:

1. Students explore links to learn about the five topics
2. Partner Groups research and take notes on one of the topics
3. Partner Groups write script, find pictures, and create Voicethread

Projects will include:

1. Notes/Script
2. 5 vocabulary words/captions
3. 5 pictures
4. Voice comments

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1) Butterflies

• Vocabulary: Parts of a Butterfly, Butterfly Life Cycle, Metamorphasis, Migration, Adaptation

• Information:
  1. Enchanted Learning: Butterflies
  2. Butterfly Life Cycle
  3. Butterfly Basics
  4. Monarch Butterflies Migration

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2) Electricity

• Vocabulary: Electricity, Circuits, Batteries, Conductor, Insulator, Voltage

• Information:
  1. How Electricity Works
  2. Electricity in Theory
  3. Energy, Electricity and Forces
  4. Using Electricity

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3) Rocks and Minerals

• Vocabulary: Rocks & Minerals, Rock Cycle, Crystal, Color, Lustre, Hardness, Streak

• Information:
  1. Rock Cycle Information
  2. Rocks & Minerals
  3. Rocks for Kids

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4) Simple Machines

• Vocabulary: Inclined Plane, Lever, Pulley, Screw, Wedge, Wheel and Axle

• Information:
  1. Franklin Institute
  2. Understanding Simple Machines
  3. Simple Machines Learning Site

• Activity for Students:
  1. EdHeads Simple Machines
  2. Harcourt School

For Teachers: http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/simmach.html

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5) Water Cycle

• Vocabulary: Water Cycle, Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Transpiration, Collection

• Information:
  1. Water Cycle Information
  2. Water Cycle KidZone
  3. Interactive Water Cycle

Voicethread example: http://voicethread.com/library/30/